...Names New Members to Patent and Trademark Public Advisory Committees
USPTO Press Release, February 14, 2008
Excerpts from the release:
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez recently named three new members to the Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) and three to the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC). They will serve three-year terms on the committees, which were created by the 1999 American Inventors Protection Act to advise the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on the management of patent and trademark operations, respectively, including goals, performance, budget and user fees. The committees have nine voting members who are appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Secretary of Commerce.
The new PPAC members are:
Louis J. Foreman is founder and chief executive of Enventys, an integrated product design and engineering firm with offices in Charlotte, N.C., and Taiwan. A prolific inventor...
F. Scott Kieff is a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution where he runs the Hoover Project on Commercializing Innovation. He serves as a faculty member of...
Damon C. Matteo is vice president and chief intellectual property officer of the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). His two-decade career in intellectual capital management (ICM) includes extensive experience in the creation, strategic management, venture/funding and commercialization of the full spectrum of corporate intellectual property assets through such vehicles as direct-to-product use, licensing, assertion, start-ups and M&A in North America, Asia & Europe. Among Mr. Matteo’s numerous professional awards, he bas been named one of the "Fifty Most Influential People in Intellectual Property" by Managing Intellectual Property magazine; and has received the National Technology Transfer Excellence Award given by the U.S. Federal Government. Mr. Matteo also serves on the Board of Directors for the European Center for Intellectual Property Studies, and was selected principal industry expert in intellectual capital management for both the U.S. Security & Exchange Commission (SEC) and the United Nations. Mr. Matteo frequently lectures on ICM at universities and professional organizations throughout the world.
The new TPAC members are:
James H. Johnson, Jr., is a practicing attorney in Atlanta at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP. With a practice focused on trademarks and service marks...
Elizabeth R. Pearce is Director of the Intellectual Property Group at American International Group, Inc., managing the AIG trademark, patent and copyright portfolios, and an executive member of AIG's IP Task Force...
Jeffrey W. Storie is a shareholder in the Fort Worth, Texas law firm of Decker Jones McMackin McClane Hall & Bates, P.C., where he leads the firm's intellectual property practice group...
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